Hello, newbie coding question but how do I print special characters on screen with papyrus? Where do I find the code and how's the input?

Basically, what I'm trying to do is use debug.Notification to print characters like "ó" and "ú" and show like that on screen, I know coding doesn't accept special characters and uses workarounds (I used to code in html, but I don't know the equivalent code in papyrus) so if anyone knows and helps me would be appreciated.

Thanks.

The official position is to avoid Debug.Notification and use Messages where ever possible. (Notice that Notification is part of the Debug script not the Game script.)For those cases where you really need a notification should just be able to include those characters directly into the strings, but the game uses Window's old language scheme so things may not always work like you expect. You need to have the system language settings set for a codepage that has the characters you want, and anyone playing the game in another codepage will likely see something entirely different if you get out of the basic ASCII range. And note that game's fonts are also somewhat limited, so you have to test and make sure the character you want even exists. (Basic accents do though.)

That's weird, because I definately have my OS language settings set like you said, and while trying to print accents ("ó" and "ú" like I said) it shows just gibberish instead. In-game accents show fine, so I guess there's somewhere in the compiling process that messes up, and doesn't recognize those characters;so I'm not sure what to do now.

Papyrus does not understand non-English characters. That's one of the reasons it is not recommended to use any of the Debug functions to display text to the user, and instead use Message forms, which can be localized into a variety of languages.

Had no problems myself when I had to display Japanese text (UTF-8 string, hardcoded). And Message is okay for static texts only. Ensure your psc file encoded in UTF-8

Alright, I got it. I found out that Skyrim is using many different encondings depending on the localization, making it a mess for us to find out :/

For what I've read, it seems chinese and japanese versions of Skyrim are encoded in UTF-8, so that's why it worked for you, silverice. But turns out my Skyrim version is encoded using Western (windows 1252), changing the script to that worked for me.

So after all, better check which encoding is your Skyrim using before scripting, it'll save you a lot of headaches.

Thank you all for your responses and help! Much appreciated.

... Except that now your script is going to break on any other localized version of Skyrim.

Seriously. Use Messages

Papyrus is not designed to show text to the user for a reason

If you are using SKSE there's one more option. You can set up language translation files for your mod. The instructions for that are on the documentation page for SkyUI's https://github.com/schlangster/skyui/wiki/MCM-Advanced-Features. You can then use the dreaded $ strings in your scripts and SKSE will use the appropriate language file for the player's system settings.

The script is only for personal use (at least for now) and it's an immersive one, so I would rather not use messages for now. It's unlikely that someone with another localized copy of Skyrim would want to use my localized translation anyway. As long as it's only for me, I'm fine with it (;

If I'm ever going to release it, I'm probably using this. I will check it anyway and play a bit with the features anyway so thanks for sharing. (:

My Skyrim installation is also western encoded.